Dragon Slayer
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How does everyone rate it?
We lost ;
Sosai Feki
Kurt Capewell
Paul Gallen
Jayden Brailey
Matt Prior
Gained;
Jessie Ramien
Cameron King
So that seems like a lot of experience and talent going out and not a great deal coming in.
I know there is a couple of factors to consider.
1. We have promoted a lot of young kids into the team and a lot of those have gotten upgrades or are on the cusp of getting a significant upgrade which eats into the cap.
2. Newtown won the comp which tells you there is some decent talent there and the Under 20’s comp or whatever they call it were Minor Premiers so again there’s some decent kids coming through so Coach Morris might be thinking there’s enough quality coming through?
3. We have a salary cap restriction which inhibits us from signing at least one more above average NRL player.
4. Long and inflated contracts of the likes of Moylan, Dugan etc. have caught up with us and unless we moved one on we weren’t going to be big players in the off season meat market.
These are all relevant points on why it’s been a very quiet recruitment drive for 2020.
However there doesn’t seem to be any exciting young prospects recruited for the future into our lower grades. If there has been please tell. I would love to know.
One thing Flanno did really well was either getting bargains, recruiting some great young kids or landing the big name signing. We don’t win the 2016 GF without all that happening.
Because of the points above I’ll give Coach Morris a pass for this season.
But I hope to see a lot more activity next time around that shows that we are actually working hard to bring additional talent in to maintain a high level at this Club.
Your thoughts?
We lost ;
Sosai Feki
Kurt Capewell
Paul Gallen
Jayden Brailey
Matt Prior
Gained;
Jessie Ramien
Cameron King
So that seems like a lot of experience and talent going out and not a great deal coming in.
I know there is a couple of factors to consider.
1. We have promoted a lot of young kids into the team and a lot of those have gotten upgrades or are on the cusp of getting a significant upgrade which eats into the cap.
2. Newtown won the comp which tells you there is some decent talent there and the Under 20’s comp or whatever they call it were Minor Premiers so again there’s some decent kids coming through so Coach Morris might be thinking there’s enough quality coming through?
3. We have a salary cap restriction which inhibits us from signing at least one more above average NRL player.
4. Long and inflated contracts of the likes of Moylan, Dugan etc. have caught up with us and unless we moved one on we weren’t going to be big players in the off season meat market.
These are all relevant points on why it’s been a very quiet recruitment drive for 2020.
However there doesn’t seem to be any exciting young prospects recruited for the future into our lower grades. If there has been please tell. I would love to know.
One thing Flanno did really well was either getting bargains, recruiting some great young kids or landing the big name signing. We don’t win the 2016 GF without all that happening.
Because of the points above I’ll give Coach Morris a pass for this season.
But I hope to see a lot more activity next time around that shows that we are actually working hard to bring additional talent in to maintain a high level at this Club.
Your thoughts?